Care of your Electric Cooker

If the inside of your electric cooker has an enamelled interior, the most effective cleaning method is a damp cloth while the oven is still warm. If your oven has catalytic liners, it should not be cleaned. To remove any built-up deposits simply remove all oven trays and set the temperature to 240°C for one hour. You should always avoid using abrasive cleaning products on a ceramic hob. Beko recommend using specific hob cleaning products for best results. For burnt-on residue, use a ceramic hob scraper. I call the appliance you cook on a electric cooker' and the part that you bake in an 'oven'. No doubt you will have many variations to those words, like hob, griddle, or stove . Whatever you call them they still get dirty. The top of your electric cooker or stove can be especially hard to deal with. One golden rule is to wipe your electric cooker after every use. You will find it easier while it is still warm. Always keep a thick cloth by your electric cooker for wiping as you work. Electric cooker tops. There a three types of electric cooker top. Ring Element, Ceramic element and Ceramic top. I shall address each of them: Ring element. These stove tops are a nightmare to keep clean. They are usually 4 rings, constructed of electrical elements that heat up when electricity flows through them. Whenever I have owned one of these I seem to end up only using a couple of rings. Then when visitors come round and I want to use the all four rings they burst into clouds of smoke as soon as I turn them on. The reason that they smoke is due to grease splattering onto the unused rings when you are cooking on the other rings. Tips for ring element electric cookers. Prevent grease build up on unused rings by using a splatter guard over cooking pans. Cover unused elements with old foil pie containers to prevent splattering onto them. Place aluminium foil on the drip tray under the rings to catch any wayward spills or drips. This makes it much easier to clean too. See the bottom of this page for more general electric cooker top cleaning tips! Ceramic element. These are a little easier to clean as they are constructed of ceramic discs that heat up. There is no drip tray as there is nowhere for spills to flow. Tips for ceramic ring element tops. If you do have a spill, try and clean up before the cooker has gone cold. Soak a thick cloth in vinegar (Great for cutting through grease) and wipe clean. Unused rings will smoke when you turn them on. This is due to the build up of grease that has splattered onto them from other pots and pans whist cooking. To prevent this from happening use oil foil pie plates and place them upside down over unused rings whilst cooking. To spruce up the ceramic discs brush them with a wire brush and wipe away residue with a vinegar soaked cloth. See the bottom of this page for more general cooker top cleaning tips! Uneven cooking Another problem you may encounter with any flat electric cooker surface is if your pans become bowed. By that I mean not flat on their bottom. This will mean that the pan will not lay flat on the top and this will cause uneven cooking and wasted heat. You can check if your pan is bowed by using a ruler placed across the bottom of the pan. Personally I have only known light pan ware to bow out due to the heat expansion, however you may know different. You have two choices, buy new pans or do as I do and that is give them a tap with a wooden mallet. We also do Washer Dryer Rental, Electric Cooker Rental, Tumble dryer Rental, Vacuum Cleaner Rental, Television Rental, Fridge rental, Fridge Freezer rental, freezer Rental, larder Fride rental and and can supply on short term rental or long term rental. We also do special rates for landlord rental